I don't know about Zug: both Cradle Guard and Gaea's Cradle are Zug pieces and both are amazingly detailed paintings. I've never seen comic books with art like that before.

Guay is amazing too, she has great use of color and she defintitely has a distinct look to her style. Whether you love or hate her stuff, the fact that you recognize her art immediately when seeing a card says something about her skill. Sky Spirit and Gaea's Blessing are my favorites of hers.

I see your point on Zug being mundane, and now that you mention it I agree. But I also think his biggest talent is trying (and succeeding) to capture natural beauty in his pieces. That's nice and he's great at what he does best, but at the same time maybe he's limiting himself by not dipping into his darkside a little bit (something that RK Post and Spencer do so well).

Stasis reprinted in 8th. It has the best art ever! But it'd have to be changed to be reprinted so...

I want all the Magic artists to redo the art from Stasis...the original pic, augmented to fit their style. (I'd bet Ron Spencer or Poalo Parente would do the best.)Then, post them all online and let players vote for which is best, and as a promo, print and distribute Stasii to all the voters with the pic of their choice!

An odd request, you might wonder? Sure. But it'd be neat to see how all the Magic artists themselves interpret Stasis' art.